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what's mr. romney getting at? and today he got closer to the ugly voices of the far right. >> all we want to do is see this birth certificate. >> not with the piece of garbage obama provided in the 2008 election. >> i don't know whether barack obama was born in the united states or not. >> i cannot in good faith report to you that these documents are authentic. >> you are not allowed to be president if you're not born inside country. he may not have been born in this country. >> all the president has to do is show it. >> all i can tell you that the general consensus is he had produced a birth certificate. the question is is it legitimate? >> perhaps it's going to say hawaii. perhaps it's goin to say kenya. president obama's camp responded today. liz smith tweeted mitt romney keeping it substantive and classy a la donald trump. says that no one has ever asked to see his birth certificate. ben labolt shot back quote, it's one thing to give the stage in tampa to donald trump, sheriff joe arpaio, and kris kobach but g
what's mr. romney getting at? and today he got closer to the ugly voices of the far right. >> all we want to do is see this birth certificate. >> not with the piece of garbage obama provided in the 2008 election. >> i don't know whether barack obama was born in the united states or not. >> i cannot in good faith report to you that these documents are authentic. >> you are not allowed to be president if you're not born inside country. he may not have been born in...
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mr. hamm chairs a group that advises mr. romney on energy. we asked the romney campaign this summer to else is on the group. they told us they would not be releasing those names. they told us they would keep us posted if and when they do. we know how much sheldon adelson is giving. but all we know for sure is that he has beaten the previous record for previous elections. we don't know if he holds the current record. think about it. does sheldon adelson have competition? if someone else was spending even more man than sheldon adelson to win the election this, how would we know? >>> okay. the secret mitt romney fund raiser video that kicked off mitt romney's very bad week last week is everywhere in the campaign now. and features in the new t.v. ad the obama campaign is in ohio today much it's also the subject of two obama campaign web videos. all reporting on this video has been different than everybody else's. we were part of the story how this came into the public eye in the first place. late last month a piece of the video was posted to a yo
mr. hamm chairs a group that advises mr. romney on energy. we asked the romney campaign this summer to else is on the group. they told us they would not be releasing those names. they told us they would keep us posted if and when they do. we know how much sheldon adelson is giving. but all we know for sure is that he has beaten the previous record for previous elections. we don't know if he holds the current record. think about it. does sheldon adelson have competition? if someone else was...
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romney objected to what the boy looked like. mr. romney is not disputing that the incident happened back when he was a teenager, and in the story he's quoted as saying, "he can't look like that, that's wrong. just look at him." mr. romney told that to a close friend in his dorm. that friend a few days later, quote, entered mr. romney's dorm, and they shouting about a plan to cut his hair. the younger student screamed for help and mitt romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. one man who is joined in having restraining the boy that they attacked, told "the post," quote, to this day it troubles me, what a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do. a childhood friend of mr. romney who saw it all happen that day told "the post," it was vicious. even though the incident was confirmed to "the washington post" by five different students who were at school with romney, his campaign spokesperson initially responded to the story today by saying it was a lie. she said, "the stories seem exaggerates and off base and governor rom
romney objected to what the boy looked like. mr. romney is not disputing that the incident happened back when he was a teenager, and in the story he's quoted as saying, "he can't look like that, that's wrong. just look at him." mr. romney told that to a close friend in his dorm. that friend a few days later, quote, entered mr. romney's dorm, and they shouting about a plan to cut his hair. the younger student screamed for help and mitt romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of...
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mr. hamm chairs a group that advises mr. romney on energy. we're not allowed to know who is in that group. we asked the romney campaign this summer to else is on the group. they told us they would not be releasing those names. they told us they would keep us posted if and when they do. we know how much sheldon adelson is giving. but all we know for sure is that he has beaten the previous record for previous elections. we don't know if he holds the current record. think about it. does sheldon adelson have competition? if someone else was spending even more man than sheldon adelson to win the election this, how would we know? [ male announcer ] the 2013 smart comes with 8 airbags, a crash management system and the world's only tridion safety cell which can withstand over three and a half tons. small in size. big on safety. which can withstand over three and a half tons. if we want to improve our schools... ...what should we invest in? maybe new buildings? what about updated equipment? they can help, but recent research shows... ...nothing trans
mr. hamm chairs a group that advises mr. romney on energy. we're not allowed to know who is in that group. we asked the romney campaign this summer to else is on the group. they told us they would not be releasing those names. they told us they would keep us posted if and when they do. we know how much sheldon adelson is giving. but all we know for sure is that he has beaten the previous record for previous elections. we don't know if he holds the current record. think about it. does sheldon...
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mr. hamm chairs a group that advises mr. romney on energy. we asked the romney campaign this summer to else is on the group. they told us they would not be releasing those names. they told us they would keep us posted if and when they do. we know how much sheldon adelson is giving. but all we know for sure is that he has beaten the previous record for previous elections. we don't know if he holds the current record. think about it. does sheldon adelson have competition? if someone else was spending even more man than sheldon adelson to win the election this, how would we know? bob... oh, hey alex. just picking up some, brochures, posters copies of my acceptance speech. great! it's always good to have a backup plan, in case i get hit by a meteor. wow, your hair looks great. didn't realize they did photoshop here. hey, good call on those mugs. can't let 'em see what you're drinking. you know, i'm glad we're both running a nice, clean race. no need to get nasty. here's your "honk if you had an affair with taylor" yard sign. looks good. [ male an
mr. hamm chairs a group that advises mr. romney on energy. we asked the romney campaign this summer to else is on the group. they told us they would not be releasing those names. they told us they would keep us posted if and when they do. we know how much sheldon adelson is giving. but all we know for sure is that he has beaten the previous record for previous elections. we don't know if he holds the current record. think about it. does sheldon adelson have competition? if someone else was...
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romney invoke mr. bush but was not able to make out the context and was again escorted away by a campaign staffer. the romney campaign went to great length to allow there to be a dick cheney appearance last night while also squel ching evidence they had had anything to do with each other. and in the same news cycle, in that same news cycle, somebody in romney land had the genius idea of floating as mr. romney's vice presidential nominee, the highest profile person from the bush/cheney administration who was not george bush or dick cheney. so they're getting new communications in over at romneyland. seems like a good idea. with or without these, i'm sure excellent new communications folks coming in to try to tune up the shop at rom com, it's going to be hard for them to run from the real connections between mr. romney's campaign and the last republican presidency. i mean, even if mitt romney has so far managed to avoid being seen next to george w. bush, there are now a bunch of statements on the record
romney invoke mr. bush but was not able to make out the context and was again escorted away by a campaign staffer. the romney campaign went to great length to allow there to be a dick cheney appearance last night while also squel ching evidence they had had anything to do with each other. and in the same news cycle, in that same news cycle, somebody in romney land had the genius idea of floating as mr. romney's vice presidential nominee, the highest profile person from the bush/cheney...
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this is mr. romney's new hello babies add. the phrase hello babies was coined by one cat.com, but it's less awkward language than the language which this ad actually starts. >> dear daughter, welcome to america. your share of obama's debt is $50,000 and it grows every day. welcome daughter. >> to this obama hell scape. don't with you wish you could go back to where you came from. >> is she a foreign baby? maybe she did a trimester abroad? hello, foreign babies. welcome to america. vote for mitt romney? the romney campaign is in serious trouble. but you do what you've got to do in these situations you've got to put one foot in front of the other and they have decided the way they're going to get out of these problems and the way they're going to take these steps is going to be baby steps. welcome to america? seriously, who's making the decisions in this campaign right now. >>> okay. best new thing in the world today. specifically, it is the best new thing in mitt romney's world today. it was a chance for him to get on televisio
this is mr. romney's new hello babies add. the phrase hello babies was coined by one cat.com, but it's less awkward language than the language which this ad actually starts. >> dear daughter, welcome to america. your share of obama's debt is $50,000 and it grows every day. welcome daughter. >> to this obama hell scape. don't with you wish you could go back to where you came from. >> is she a foreign baby? maybe she did a trimester abroad? hello, foreign babies. welcome to...
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mr. romney made those remarks at about 2:00 in the afternoon on may 3rd. and they drew an almost immediate rebuke from even staunch conservatives, like, for example, bill kristol, that very same afternoon. >> i mean, i'm happy to be critical of the obama administration, as anyone is, but i think this is an awfully fast-moving story, and if i was advising governor romney, i would say, you don't need to get in the middle of this story. to inject yourself in the middle of it, when there were all kinds of negotiations going on, and a fast-moving story, i think it's foolish. there's no reason to inject yourself in and say it's a day of shame for the obama administration. hillary clinton's waking up right now. let's see if she can pull this off in the next 12 hours or not. >> turns out secretary clinton was able to pull it off. just eight hours after mitt romney declared a day of shame for the obama administration, u.s. officials who were working on the problem at the time announced that they had reached an agreement with china that would allow chen to travel to
mr. romney made those remarks at about 2:00 in the afternoon on may 3rd. and they drew an almost immediate rebuke from even staunch conservatives, like, for example, bill kristol, that very same afternoon. >> i mean, i'm happy to be critical of the obama administration, as anyone is, but i think this is an awfully fast-moving story, and if i was advising governor romney, i would say, you don't need to get in the middle of this story. to inject yourself in the middle of it, when there were...
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you heard the president last night with mr. romney. mr. romney being a different mr. romney than we've seen him for the last 18 months or the last section years. do you think even with the new hit romney that showed up last night when he starts talking about states' rights, when he starts talking about regulation or deregulation, when he starts saying he doesn't advocate $5 trillion tax cut when in fact the numbers prove that he does and has been advocating that, will that resonate with independent voters and/or undecided voters in your state of ohio? >> i don't think so. i think people realize that governor romney is still wrong on medicare and still wrong on trade and still wrong on jobs and still wrong on the middle class. i think that's increasingly clear. again it goes back to which path do you go. do you want to go back to the trickle down economics you give tax cuts to the rich and hope it helps the middle class or do you focus on the middle class and that's trait enforcement, it's i don't think training at community colleges like columbus state and sinclair. i
you heard the president last night with mr. romney. mr. romney being a different mr. romney than we've seen him for the last 18 months or the last section years. do you think even with the new hit romney that showed up last night when he starts talking about states' rights, when he starts talking about regulation or deregulation, when he starts saying he doesn't advocate $5 trillion tax cut when in fact the numbers prove that he does and has been advocating that, will that resonate with...
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this is mr. romney could be baby ad. it was first coined -- hello davies is less awkward than the real language the that it actually starts with. >> welcome to america. that is what obama's policies have done. >> welcome, and daughter, to this obama healthy. don't you wish you could go back to where you came from? why does she need to be unwelcome to america? -ish e-4 in baby? congratulations! maybe she did a trimester abroad. hello foreign babies. welcome to america. vote for matt ronny? they are in serious trouble, but you do what you have to do. put one foot in front of the other. they have very quietly decided that the way they will get out is by taking these steps. their steps will be baby steps. welcome to america? seriously, who is making the decisions in the campaign right now? whoa. right? get. out. exactly! really?! [ mom ] what? shut the front door. right? woop-woop! franklin delano! [ male announcer ] there's oreo creme under that fudge! oreo fudge cremes. now in two new flavors. to compete on the global stag
this is mr. romney could be baby ad. it was first coined -- hello davies is less awkward than the real language the that it actually starts with. >> welcome to america. that is what obama's policies have done. >> welcome, and daughter, to this obama healthy. don't you wish you could go back to where you came from? why does she need to be unwelcome to america? -ish e-4 in baby? congratulations! maybe she did a trimester abroad. hello foreign babies. welcome to america. vote for matt...
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this may come from the way mr. romney was beaten in 2008. it may have left his campaign termined that he not get stuck th t fliflopr lal ag even though they leave the ads with the lies in them up and sometimes mr. romney goes on tv invents a brand new policy position he's never had before. llowbehind him and quietly releasing statements faeg back his quotes. when mr. romney was asked in an interview last week about one of his immigration advisers. he said he could not confirm whether kris kobch was part of his team. and they y, he's a romney cagnis soe tes annterews r wiim h campaign says what he said was not true. same thing happened last month when mr. romney came out with a whole new policy position on abortion rights. >> i'm in favor ofbortion being legal in the casof rape d incest in the heth othe lif moer. >> he says he believes abortion should be allowed to protect a woman's health. afterwards the campaign said that's not what he believes. oe allppth legal right to have an abortion if you need one to protect your health as a woman. th
this may come from the way mr. romney was beaten in 2008. it may have left his campaign termined that he not get stuck th t fliflopr lal ag even though they leave the ads with the lies in them up and sometimes mr. romney goes on tv invents a brand new policy position he's never had before. llowbehind him and quietly releasing statements faeg back his quotes. when mr. romney was asked in an interview last week about one of his immigration advisers. he said he could not confirm whether kris kobch...
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in response to mitt romney this afternoon. mr. burns, in that place that he saw him there was being interviewed by the host of en masse and pc's andrea mitchell reports. it was so riveting it was like time stopped. thank you for being here. it has been a long day. >> such an interesting day because it was revealing. it was one of those moments where the character and policy were both revealed. >> let me ask you about the timing. as far as i understand it, you were trying to get confirmation on what happened in that in gauzy last night when this statement got e-mailed out. it is that unusual. what is important about that? >> i thought it was extraordinary. things have changed in a very strange way. we were trying to get confirmation. we were told we could not tell you whether or not the american diplomat was one of the people killed and that when we do know we are going to have to notify next of kin before we tell anybody. we would not broadcast that in any case. you were on the air, i was trying to get a report together. the next
in response to mitt romney this afternoon. mr. burns, in that place that he saw him there was being interviewed by the host of en masse and pc's andrea mitchell reports. it was so riveting it was like time stopped. thank you for being here. it has been a long day. >> such an interesting day because it was revealing. it was one of those moments where the character and policy were both revealed. >> let me ask you about the timing. as far as i understand it, you were trying to get...
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but mr. romney was wrong. when he said the first embassy statement was a response to the attacks, in fact, it came six hours before the embassy was breached. and that's why it's so appalling to hear mr. romney this morning when he took his statements even further. >> the embassy is the administration. the statement that came from the administration was a statement which is akin to an apology and i think was a severe miscalculation. it's their administration spoke. the president takes responsibility, not just for the words that come from his mouth but also from the words that come from his ambassadors, his administration, from his state department. >> and desperate candidates falling in the polls should not use a tragedy to further their political ambitions. it's not worthy of a man who wants to be our commander in chief. joining me is joe crawly, democrat from new york and wesley clark, former nato commander, now chairman and ceo of wesley clark and associates. first, thank you both for being here. >> thank yo
but mr. romney was wrong. when he said the first embassy statement was a response to the attacks, in fact, it came six hours before the embassy was breached. and that's why it's so appalling to hear mr. romney this morning when he took his statements even further. >> the embassy is the administration. the statement that came from the administration was a statement which is akin to an apology and i think was a severe miscalculation. it's their administration spoke. the president takes...
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it appears in plain english in the form mr. romney hado fe run for priden h nancl discsure form . rney retedrom bai capil on febary1th 19 to hd thealtake organizing dmt. since february of 1999, mr. romney has not had any active role with me bain capital eity not bn invved he eratns o a bn capal enty iany way. you do n heo be lyer to kwhatn anyay means. the reason he keeps insisting he left bain capital a few weeks into 1999, he doesn't wanto answ for anying bn cital diafte th. doenotano awe for e yoff aankrtcy at e coany lled damic deils. .omneoes tant to answer for the layoffs and osing of the steelillhat d toail out tensi nd. e amican p andaper compy o the way modu med and smt corp sent jobs overseas. mr. romney does not want to answer those this that happened at bain capalfter he d gonays h lthat doone mpan w mt rneyas a oble ich twfold firsfo, repters he be finding and publishing lots a lots of instances where mitt romney shows up in bain cital documents as being very mu a rt o tha cpanyfter1999 vid cor aosharshl a talkgointemoave en blisng bn cital domentlike thine from after
it appears in plain english in the form mr. romney hado fe run for priden h nancl discsure form . rney retedrom bai capil on febary1th 19 to hd thealtake organizing dmt. since february of 1999, mr. romney has not had any active role with me bain capital eity not bn invved he eratns o a bn capal enty iany way. you do n heo be lyer to kwhatn anyay means. the reason he keeps insisting he left bain capital a few weeks into 1999, he doesn't wanto answ for anying bn cital diafte th. doenotano awe for...
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she says she disagrees with mr. romney. mark meadows, running for congress as a republican in north carolina, says that he is different from mitt romney. lamontagne, running in new hampshire, promising not to be a partisan -- is promising not to be a partisan governor in the style of mr. romney and his 47% speech. but here's maybe the biggest panic button that there is on the republican side right now. it's from the "huffington post" today. a republican operative working on congressional races, quote, warned that in key swing states, mitt romney's support and internal polling is well below that of republican candidates in districts where the presidential nominee needs to get big support to have a chance at winning. this is the quote from the republican operative. "he is just well under all of our other guys," this republican said, "i'm very concerned." think about what that means for a second. what they're talking about here is key districts in key swing states. ones where mitt romney really needs to win big in order to win
she says she disagrees with mr. romney. mark meadows, running for congress as a republican in north carolina, says that he is different from mitt romney. lamontagne, running in new hampshire, promising not to be a partisan -- is promising not to be a partisan governor in the style of mr. romney and his 47% speech. but here's maybe the biggest panic button that there is on the republican side right now. it's from the "huffington post" today. a republican operative working on...
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ultimately mr. romney i think is going to have to answer those questions because if he aspires to be the president, one of the things youearn is you're ultimately responsible for the conduct of your operations. >> woodruff: and to the analysis of shields and gerson-- that's syndicated columnist mark shields and washington post columnist michael gerson. david brooks is away. gentlemen, welcome. so the debate over outsourcing jobs has expanded as we just heard to a debate, mark, over how much responsibility mitt romney bears for bain capital the private equity firm during a period of years in the late 1990s, early 2000. is this aebate that really is going to matter? >> i think it could, judy for the following reason. support for free trade which had been very strong among college educated and upper income people has fallen dramatically. s there a a sense that america is not benefited from free trade. and everybody knows outsourcing, you go across as you have in the midwest to this country, and communi
ultimately mr. romney i think is going to have to answer those questions because if he aspires to be the president, one of the things youearn is you're ultimately responsible for the conduct of your operations. >> woodruff: and to the analysis of shields and gerson-- that's syndicated columnist mark shields and washington post columnist michael gerson. david brooks is away. gentlemen, welcome. so the debate over outsourcing jobs has expanded as we just heard to a debate, mark, over how...
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mr. romney told that same story about meeting mr. doherty yesterday while campaigning in iowa. >> he skied a lot, he skied in some of the places i had. we had a lot of things in common. he told me that he keeps going back to the middle east. he cares very deeply about the people there. you can imagine how i felt when i found out that he was one of the two former navy s.e.a.l.s killed in benghazi on september 11th. and it -- it touched me, obviously, as i recognized this young man that i thought was so impressive. he -- according to the reports on cnn international that i read, he was actually in a different building, in an annex, a safe place, somewhere else across town when he and his colleagues there heard that the consulate was around attack. and they went there. they didn't hunker down where they were in safety. they rushed there to go help. this is the american way. we go where there's trouble. we go where we're needed. and right now we're needed. right now the american people need us. >> politicians repeat the same stories on t
mr. romney told that same story about meeting mr. doherty yesterday while campaigning in iowa. >> he skied a lot, he skied in some of the places i had. we had a lot of things in common. he told me that he keeps going back to the middle east. he cares very deeply about the people there. you can imagine how i felt when i found out that he was one of the two former navy s.e.a.l.s killed in benghazi on september 11th. and it -- it touched me, obviously, as i recognized this young man that i...
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and mr. romney is not getting any closer to answer these questions. in his interview today with the national review, this was his answer to why he hasn't gotten rid of his offshore accounts specifically, quote, all of my investments are managed in a blind trust. the decisions made by the trustee are decisions that determine where the investments are. the reason he keeps his money offshore is it's in a blind trust. it's not his decision. which might pass for an answer if he wasn't this guy. >> the blind trust is an age old ruse, if you will, which is to say you can always tell the blind trust what it can and cannot do. you give a blind trust rules. >> that's what he said about blind trusts when he was running for senate against ted kennedy. how about a no offshore accounts rule? but there's more to his answer to the national review about what he keeps money stashes in offshore accounts. he was not relying exclusively on the excuse he once dismissed as a ruse. the so-called offshore account in the cayman islands is established by a u.s. firm to allow fo
and mr. romney is not getting any closer to answer these questions. in his interview today with the national review, this was his answer to why he hasn't gotten rid of his offshore accounts specifically, quote, all of my investments are managed in a blind trust. the decisions made by the trustee are decisions that determine where the investments are. the reason he keeps his money offshore is it's in a blind trust. it's not his decision. which might pass for an answer if he wasn't this guy....
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this may come from the way mr. romney was beaten in 2008. teedhae not get stuck with the flip flopper label again. even though they leave the ads with the lies in them up and sometimes mr. romney goes on tv invents a brand new policy position he's never had before. after he does that, his staff follows behind hnd qly releasing statements faeg back his quotes. when mr. romney was asked in an interview last week about one of his immigration advisers. heaild not confirm whether kris kobch was part of his team. and they yes, he's a romney campaign adviser. so he tells an intviewe's neit him but his campaign says what he said was not true. same thing happened last month when mr. romney came out with a whole new policy position on abortion rights. >> i'm in favor of aion being legaln theasef r annct the health of the life of the mother. >> he says he believes abortion should be allowed to protect a woman'health. afterwards theampaign said that's not what he believes. he doesn actually suppor t l t h a abortion if you need one to protect your healt
this may come from the way mr. romney was beaten in 2008. teedhae not get stuck with the flip flopper label again. even though they leave the ads with the lies in them up and sometimes mr. romney goes on tv invents a brand new policy position he's never had before. after he does that, his staff follows behind hnd qly releasing statements faeg back his quotes. when mr. romney was asked in an interview last week about one of his immigration advisers. heaild not confirm whether kris kobch was part...